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used by the Free and Jail Populations in India ;—A. Gages, Synthetical Researches 
onthe Formation of Minerals, &c.;—R. Mallet, Preliminary Report on the Experi- 
mental Determination of the Temperatures of Volcanic Foci, and of the Temperature, 
State of Saturation, and Velocity of the issuing Gases and Vapours;—Report of the 
Committee on Observations of Luminous Meteors ;—Fifth Report of the Committee 
on Steamship Performance ;—G. J. Allman, Report on the Present State of our Know- 
ledge of the Reproductive System in the Hydroida ;—J. Glaisher, Account of Five Bal- 
loon Ascents made in 1863 ;—P. P. Carpenter, Supplementary Report on the Present 
State of our Knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North 
America ;—Prof. Airy, Report on Steam Boiler Explosions ;—C. W. Siemens, Obser- 
vations on the Electrical Resistance and Electrification of some Insulating Materials 
under Pressures up to 8300 Atmospheres ;—C. M. Palmer, on the Construction of Iron 
Ships and the Progress of Iron Shipbuilding on the Tyne, Wear, and Tees ;—Messrs. 
Richardson, Stevenson, and Clapham, on the Chemical Manufactures of the Northern 
Districts ;—Messrs. Sopwith and Richardson, on the Local Manufacture of Lead, 
Copper, Zinc, Antimony, &c. ;—Messrs. Daglish and Forster, on the Magnesian Lime- 
stone of Durham ;—I. L. Bell, on the Manufacture of Iron in connexion with the 
Northumberland and Durham Coal-field ;—T. Spencer, on the Manufacture of Steel 
in the Northern District ;—Prof. H. J.S. Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers, 
Part V. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir William Armstrong’s Address, 
and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or tue THIRTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Bath, 
September 1864, Published at 18s. 
CONTENTS :—Report of the Committee for Observations of Luminous Meteors ;— 
Report of the Committee on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights 
and Measures ;—T. 8. Cobbold, Report of Experiments respecting the Development 
and Migration of the Entozoa;—B. W. Richardson, Report on the Physiological 
Action of Nitrite of Amyl;—J. Oldham, Report of the Committee on Tidal Observa- 
tions ;—G. §. Brady, Report on Deep-sea Dredging on the Coasts of Northumberland 
and Durham in 1864 ;—J. Glaisher, Account of Nine Balloon Ascents made in 1863 
and 1864 ;—J. G. Jeffreys, Further Report on Shetland Dredgings ;—Report of the 
Committee on the Distribution of the Organic Remains of the North Staffordshire 
Coal-field ;—Report of the Committee on Standards of Electrical Resistance ;—G. J. 
Symons, on the Fall of Rain in the British Isles in 1862 and 1863 ;—W. Fairbairn, 
Preliminary Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of the proposed Atlantic 
Cable. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir Charles Lyell’s Address, and 
Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or raz THIRTY-FIFTH MEETING, at Birming- 
ham, September 1865, Published at £1 5s. 
ContTENTS :—J. G. Jeffreys, Report on Dredging among the Channel Isles ;—F, 
Buckland, Report on the Cultivation of Oysters by Natural and Artificial Methods ;— 
Report of the Committee for exploring Kent’s Cavern ;—Report of the Committee 
on Zoological Nomenclature ;—Report on the Distribution of the Organic Remains 
of the North Staffordshire Coal-field ;—Report on the Marine Fauna and Flora of 
the South Coast of Devon and Cornwall ;—Interim Report on the Resistance of 
Water to Floating and Immersed Bodies ;—Report on Observations of Luminous 
Meteors ;—Report on Dredging on the Coast of Aberdeenshire ;—J. Glaisher, Account 
of Three Balloon Ascents;—Interim Report on the Transmission of Sound under 
Water ;—G. J. Symons, on the Rainfall of the British Isles ;—W. Fairbairn, on the 
Strength of Materials considered in relation to the Construction of Iron Ships ;— 
Report of the Gun-Cotton Committee ;—A. F. Osler, on the Horary and Diurnal 
Variations in the Direction and Motion of the Air at Wrottesley, Liverpool, and 
Birmingham ;—B. W. Richardson, Second Report on the Physiological Action of 
certain of the Amyl Compounds ;—Report on further Researches in the Lingula- 
